diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e84b3bc..91333ce 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -17,3 +17,5 @@ resources/public/js/out
 .rebel_readline_history
 /elm-stuff
 *.*~
+*#
+.#*
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 1abd4aa..086eeef 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -29,9 +29,12 @@
 
                  ;; neo4j
                  [gorillalabs/neo4j-clj "2.0.1"
-                  :exclusions [org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15on
-                               org.bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk15on
-                               com.github.ben-manes.caffeine/caffeine]]
+                  :exclusions [com.github.ben-manes.caffeine/caffeine]]
+                 ;; neo4j-clj 2.0.1 uses version 1.7.2 of neo4j-java-driver
+                 ;; this seems to be too old because there's a class
+                 ;; missing, so we use a newer version of the
+                 ;; transitive dependency
+                 [org.neo4j.driver/neo4j-java-driver "4.2.0"]
 
                  ;; additional server side libs
                  [buddy/buddy-hashers "1.4.0"
diff --git a/src/wanijo/infrastructure/neo4j.clj b/src/wanijo/infrastructure/neo4j.clj
index 77103f8..5724640 100644
--- a/src/wanijo/infrastructure/neo4j.clj
+++ b/src/wanijo/infrastructure/neo4j.clj
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
             [clj-time.local :as time-local]
             [clojure.spec.alpha :as spec]
             [clojure.string :as cljs])
-  (:import (java.util UUID)))
+  (:import (java.util UUID)
+           (java.net URI)))
 
 (spec/def ::date-str
   #(re-matches #"\d{4}\d{2}\d{2}T\d{2}\d{2}\d{2}\.\d{3}Z" %))
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@
      (create-conn! port host user pass)))
   ([port host user pass]
    (db/connect
-    (str "bolt://" host ":" port)
+    (URI. (str "bolt://" host ":" port))
     user
     pass)))
 
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@
        (str (butiful-query qry)
             "<br>---Params---<br>"
             params))
-      (qry session params))))
+      (doall (qry session params)))))
 
 (spec/def ::tuple-query-list
   (spec/coll-of